This is a mistake. I really should have just walked away but… the waiter said that dinner was served and, well I just didn’t know how not to leave.
This all began on the night of the work dinner. I wasn’t supposed to go, I mean, I spend all day with these people - do I really have to eat out with them too? But then Debbie mentioned we were going to Bernett’s and, I admit, I let my mind be swayed ...
The smoke began to clear. Trees framed the crater and sand and dust blanketed the ground. The group remained paralysed as gradually the scene came into focus.
“What the hell is that?” Whispered Gracie.
At the centre of the crater was a huge boulder. Round and grey, it had decimated most of the forest. The group slowly began to approach the object. It was as if their fear had turned them into min...
I’m not a bad person. Really, I’m not. It’s just a… habit. An addiction really. I just can’t stop taking what isn’t mine.
And it’s harmless really. As a child I used to take rakes from my neighbours lawns when they scolded me for playing too loudly or kicking a ball into their garden. Who knows why I did it. I think it was my way of bringing people down somehow. Of having power over the adults, ...
Brenda slowly lifted the lid off the box. Already the mood of the room had shifted. It was that time of Christmas Day, when all the patience and joy of the morning had slowly weaned off and been replaced by alcoholic intolerance. Now, as the sun sets outside and everyone slowly begins to drift into a food coma, Brenda decides it’s time for a board game.
I looked at him from the doorway, my heart ready to shatter.
“I know I’m not dressed. I’m not going.” I stuttered. I knew that I had to be strong but the realisation that I was finally having this conversation was enough to make me feel like jelly.
“What do you mean you’re not going?” K replied, “you know how important this night is for me”.
You know that popular girl at school? The one that every girl wanted to be? Toned with long flowing hair, and who seemed to skip the awkward stage of puberty? Well that was my friend Becks. And you know the girl trailing behind her? The awkward, geeky girl with braces? No, of course you don’t. That was me.
Growing up, Becks was always the life and soul of the party. She knew everyone and did eve...
“I’m sorry, I just can’t hear you!” I screamed at the bartender in Zeenos. I was only twenty five and yet already felt too old for this. The bartender have given up on whatever question he’d been trying to ask for the past two minutes and poured whisky into two glasses.
I looked around the club anxiously. I’d only come here for Kai, and it was beginning to look like she wasn’t even coming. Most p...
Today I went back. It felt strange to be back in the area that had caused me so much pain. And yet, as the waves brushed against my ankles I felt at peace. As if the past no longer mattered. I was in the present at last. The waves continued to crash and the wind blew my hair back. I lifted my head and screamed into the wind. Screaming the pain into the universe. Releasing what had been...
